On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 08:12:23PM -0000, Zen83237 wrote:
"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:
wrote:
The Jubilee line is only running between Waterloo and North Greenwich is
it really worth having it open?
Yes. It provides a vital link across the Isle of Dogs, in turn connecting
East London to South London without the need to go through the centre.
Doesn't the DLR do that?

Not really. The DLR will dump you in Greenwich, from where you'll have
to get a train to London Bridge to get to pretty nearly anywhere else.
The Jubilee line, on the other hand, will take you directly to useful
places (like London Bridge or Waterloo), and will do it a lot quicker
too.

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by drinking alcohol. -- W C Fields

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On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 08:12:23PM -0000, Zen83237 wrote:
"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:
wrote:
The Jubilee line is only running between Waterloo and North Greenwich
is
it really worth having it open?
Yes. It provides a vital link across the Isle of Dogs, in turn
connecting
East London to South London without the need to go through the centre.
Doesn't the DLR do that?

Not really. The DLR will dump you in Greenwich, from where you'll have
to get a train to London Bridge to get to pretty nearly anywhere else.
The Jubilee line, on the other hand, will take you directly to useful
places (like London Bridge or Waterloo), and will do it a lot quicker
too.

--
David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist

More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than
by drinking alcohol. -- W C Fields

errrr if you want to go from Isle of Dogs to London Bridge/Waterloo what is
wrong with the DLR to Bank. The poster specified connecting the Isle of Dogs
to south of the river. DLR to Greenwich full fills that. Unless you want to
go the Dome, lets call it what it is, who goes to North Greenwich.

Zen83237 wrote:

Unless you want to go the Dome, lets call it what it is, who goes to North
Greenwich.

At least one courier firm has its depot on the pennisula, on the road
leading to the Blackwall tunnel. I've had to trek down there to collect
packages because the useless sods couldn't deliver properly.

Zen83237 wrote:

Unless you want to go the Dome, lets call it what it is, who
goes to North Greenwich.

It's one of the most heavily used stations on the tube.

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In message , David
Cantrell writes

The DLR will dump you in Greenwich, from where you'll have
to get a train to London Bridge to get to pretty nearly anywhere else.
The Jubilee line, on the other hand, will take you directly to useful
places (like London Bridge or Waterloo), and will do it a lot quicker
too.

Surely National Rail from Greenwich still goes to London Bridge and
Waterloo - it also goes to Charing Cross, unlike the Jubilee.
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Paul Terry

On 9 Nov, 19:23, Paul Terry wrote:
In message , David
Cantrell writes

The DLR will dump you in Greenwich, from where you'll have
to get a train to London Bridge to get to pretty nearly anywhere else.
The Jubilee line, on the other hand, will take you directly to useful
places (like London Bridge or Waterloo), and will do it a lot quicker
too.

Surely National Rail from Greenwich still goes to London Bridge and
Waterloo - it also goes to Charing Cross, unlike the Jubilee.
--
Paul Terry

Again, only the Jubilee goes to the Greenwich peninsula.

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 07:23:22PM +0000, Paul Terry wrote:
In message , David
Cantrell writes
The DLR will dump you in Greenwich, from where you'll have
to get a train to London Bridge to get to pretty nearly anywhere else.
The Jubilee line, on the other hand, will take you directly to useful
places (like London Bridge or Waterloo), and will do it a lot quicker
too.
Surely National Rail from Greenwich still goes to London Bridge and
Waterloo

Yes. It does it slower than the Jubilee line, less often, and with an
additional inconvenient change. This sub-thread started off with:

The Jubilee line is only running between Waterloo and North Greenwich
is it really worth having it open?
Yes. It provides a vital link across the Isle of Dogs, in turn
connecting East London to South London without the need to go
through the centre.
Doesn't the DLR do that?

My point is that the DLR does a ****-poor job of connecting East London
to South London. In fact, it is only useful for that if you are only
interested in Greenwich or Lewisham. Needless to say, those who live in
Croydon, or Crystal Palace, or Sutton, or several zillion other places
in South London, find the DLR to be about as useful for getting to the
East End as a chocolate bicycle would be.

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